Re: Redisplay problems?

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>>         address@hidden
>> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:58:32 -0400
>> 
>> > I actually don't think we should be bothered about this at all.  Why
>> > does it make sense to optimize the use case where a frame is
>> > deiconified?
>> 
>> If you have 50 frames, 25 on one desktop and 25 on the other, whenever
>> you switch from one desktop to the other, 25 frames get deiconified and
>> the other 25 get iconified.
>
> I still don't see anything performance critical even in this scenario.
> A switch to a different desktop is not something one would do several
> times a second, and it's okay for it to take a second or so.

It is quite customary to _cycle_ through desktops and go through several
in fast succession until finding the desired one.  Most certainly at a
rate of several (three or four) per second.

-- 
David Kastrup